How to Turn On or Off Email for Account in Mail app in Windows 10


The Mail and Calendar apps included with Windows 10 help you stay up to date on your email, manage your schedule and stay in touch with people you care about the most. Designed for both work and home, these apps help you communicate quickly and focus on what’s important across all your accounts. Supports Office 365, Exchange, Outlook.com, Gmail, Yahoo! and other popular accounts.

If you don't want to continue to receive email from a particular account in the Mail app for Windows 10, you can either delete the account and remove it from the app, or you can turn off email for that account. Deleting or removing an account from either app will also remove any calendar associated with that account. Turning off email for an account will only temporarily remove the account from the app until email is turned back on for the account.

This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off to receive email for an account in the Mail app for your account in Windows 10.


Contents

  • Option One: To Turn Off Email for an Account in Mail app
  • Option Two: To Turn On Email for an Account in Mail app






OPTION ONE

To Turn Off Email for an Account in Mail app


1 Do step 2 (Mail app) or step 3 (Settings) below for how you would like to turn off email for an account.


2 To Turn Off Email for an Account from within Mail app

A) Open the Mail app.

B) Click/tap on the Settings (gear) icon at the bottom of the left pane, and click/tap on Manage Accounts in the Settings flyout. (see screenshot below)

Turn On or Off Email for Account in Windows 10 Mail app-mail_app_manage_accounts-1.jpg

C) Click/tap on the account you want to turn off email for, and go to step 4 below. (see screenshot below)

Turn On or Off Email for Account in Windows 10 Mail app-mail_app_manage_accounts-2.jpg


3 To Turn Off Email for an Account from within Settings

A) Open Settings, and click/tap on the Accounts icon.

B) Click/tap on Email & app accounts on the left side, click/tap on the account you want to turn on email for under Email, calendar, and contacts on the right side, click/tap on Manage, and go to step 4 below. (see screenshot below)

Turn On or Off Email for Account in Windows 10 Mail app-settings-2.png


4 Click/tap on Change mailbox sync settings. (see screenshot below)

Turn On or Off Email for Account in Windows 10 Mail app-mail_app_manage_accounts-3.png

5 Turn off Email under Sync options, and click/tap on Done. (see screenshot below)

Turn On or Off Email for Account in Windows 10 Mail app-mail_app_manage_accounts-4b.png

6 Click/tap on Save. (see screenshot below)

Turn On or Off Email for Account in Windows 10 Mail app-mail_app_manage_accounts-5.png

7 The account will now be removed from the accounts list in the left pane of the Mail app, and you will no longer receive email for the account until you turn on email for this account again.






OPTION TWO

To Turn On Email for an Account in Mail app


1 Open Settings, and click/tap on the Accounts icon.

2 Click/tap on Email & app accounts on the left side, click/tap on the account you want to turn on email for under Email, calendar, and contacts on the right side, and click/tap on Manage. (see screenshot below)

Turn On or Off Email for Account in Windows 10 Mail app-settings-2.png

3 Click/tap on Change mailbox sync settings. (see screenshot below)

Turn On or Off Email for Account in Windows 10 Mail app-mail_app_manage_accounts-3.png

4 Turn on Email under Sync options, and click/tap on Done. (see screenshot below)

Turn On or Off Email for Account in Windows 10 Mail app-mail_app_manage_accounts-4.png

5 Click/tap on Save. (see screenshot below)

Turn On or Off Email for Account in Windows 10 Mail app-mail_app_manage_accounts-5.png

6 You can now close Settings if you like.

7 The account will now be added back to the accounts list in the left pane of the Mail app, and you will start receiving email for the account again.


That's it,
Shawn


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